What one needs to know about the Fox News orchestrated Tea Party’s is the confederate flags flying behind a beaming Sean Hannity. The crowds were only diverse in their fears. Fear of being left behind a global economy and economic uncertainty. Fearing immigration. Fearful of gun rights. A crowd fearing any other. The fake outrage at taxes and government spending which is keeping the entire economy afloat is bizarre. Where was the outrage when George W. Bush increased government spending beyond imagine and cut taxes in the midst of two wars which was and is an economic recipe for disaster. Even John McCain stated that cutting taxes while trying to pay for two wars did not make common sense. But the right wing orthodoxy around cutting taxes simply does not make sense. Are the teabaggers the same people who think Bush was a good President and the same people who think Iraq had wmd?
One cannot help but wonder that the tens of people that showed up at these so called tax rally’s know that Obama’s tax plan actually gives them a tax cut. What they are rallying against is actually the previous tax code. According to the site inequality.org, the top one percent of households received 21.8 percent of all pre-tax income in 2005, which is the greatest concentration of wealth since well 1928 right before, you know it, the great depression. They are fighting against their own interest.
Reason, truth and analysis has never meant much to right wing fanatics. Fantasy is the world they and their political analyst chose to live. For instance, President Obama a former constitutional law professor has always stated that he supports the second amendment. His tax plan benefits 95 percent of Americans. His health care benefits most Americans. The Americans Bush fought for was the top 1 percent whose wealth he increased in his tenure by more than all other Americans combined. It is as if truth cannot penetrate their fantasy world. The game is as old as the republic. The rich and power convince the poor and working class that they are like them and convinces them to fight for them even if its against their own interest.
Fox News’ promotion and advocacy of teabagging crosses the line of a news network. The FCC should consider revoking their privilege of using the air waves to promote right wing propaganda and branding it as news.
Political blogs and news outlets have made fun of the sophomoric humor related to teabagging so in honor of that sophomoric humor here is some more: what Fake News revealed and their journalist/activists further revealed is that they are not teabaggers they are simply d-bags.
